by Massive Voodoo

A little while ago Thorsten was visiting the MV Headquarter for a two day MV private coaching with Roman.

Thorsten is a long time Jungle Painter and took part in many weekend workshops so far. So it was a pleasure to welcome him in the MV Studio. Roman and Thorsten had a great teaching and painting time.

Roman & Thorsten

This coaching was also special, because Raffa was teaching Andy, a good jungle friend and good buddy of Thorsten at the same time in sculpting. This was a very exclusive thing, having two different classes at once. We did this because we were asked so nicely, but we are not sure if we'll do it again. All was cool, but still, both teachers decided in the end to not do it again.

Let's hear what Thorsten has to say about his coaching, shall we?

Thorsten's review in english
(big thanks to Mike for the translation work!)

After a couple of group
courses (beginner classes, sculpting workshops and base building workshops)
with the guys from MassiveVoodo I previously attended, I opted for a private coaching
by Roman at the beginning of this year.

The coaching started already
a few weeks before the workshop itself by the common elaboration of my learning
objectives

- useful project planning
before the painting- athmospheric painting- understanding textures and
reasonable painting in scale- useful steps with the
airbrush while working at a figure for display

Always dancing in private coaching reviews.

A particular aspect of this
coaching weekend was, that my hobby buddy Andy had a sculpting workshop by
Raffa at the same time. This gave me the opportunity to take a look across the
great and very well lit desk now and then. If you come to visit the studio of
these guys, look how practically and neatly the working places are arranged
there. When I came home, I immediately started to reorganize and clean up my
studio a little bit.Already at the friendly
reception I felt familiar and welcome. There were tea, coffee and Andy also
brought a cake with him. After a short while of small talk about the content of
the workshop the painting adventure could start.

Welcome, Thorsten.

Preceding the concrete
painting process, there were amazingly elaborated theory units and exercises on
paper concerning the respective issues. Here, Roman integrated many parts of
his advanced classes concerning athmosphere. There were also some theoretical
exercises about colour study and theory of colours to absolve.

Plans before starting.

First exercises consisted of
mixing any imaginable colours from primary colours. Amazing, how easy it works.
This gave me the certainty, that I can remix any colour already used on an
figure without exact knowledge, which colours were used before. Very helpful!

First of all I painted a wolf
in a classic daylight situation an an exercize, followed by a wolf in a light
situation similar to the one I planned to paint onto my mini later on. This
whet my appetite to draw or paint something like that onto paper.

Thorsten's wolves.

For the scene I wanted to
build, I had the vision of a dwarf, entering a ruined city in the Frostgrave
setting at dawn (blue hour). For that reason we mixed a little bit of dark,
cool blue into every colour to set the right mood. I was really surprised that
the eye perceives these colours as „normal“ nontheless. White for example still
appears as white even with blue in it. It's magic!

Focused.

mmh?

Because I had only very
little experience with the Airbrush, Roman showed me how to apply the base
colour and a first light situation on mini and terrain. Not as difficult as I
had thougth. I will certainly use this technique again in the future, because
you can safe time and bring a kind of rough sketch of the light situation onto
the objects.

In between we painted the
mini in detail and worked at tissue and leather textures. Roman was so kind and
painted a rat with a dripping snout for me. So a „true Roman“ decorates the
whole ensemble. Many thanks again for this!

The rat

Thorsten's Dwarf. A random encounter, maybe?

To intensify the mood, we
added an OSL effect of a lantern. When I later showed the scene to friends at
home, they couldn't believe that you can create such a bright shine with normal
colours alone. It's magic again!

SummarizingI want to say, that
the workshop totally satisfied my expectations and I can recommend it to
everybody who left the most basic painting behind. In the end you will
certainly think: It's magic!

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